The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, in particular to a pixel compensation method and system.
As a current-type light-emitting device, an electroluminescent component has been increasingly applied to a display panel. An electroluminescent display panel has a self-emitting characteristic, does not require a backlight, and has advantages such as high contrast, a thin thickness, wide viewing angles, a fast reaction speed, flexibility, simple structures, and a simple manufacturing process. Therefore, the electroluminescent display panel gradually becomes a next-generation mainstream display panel. In general, a pixel circuit comprises a display unit, a thin film transistor (TFT), and a storage capacitance. The pixel circuit charges a voltage corresponding to display data to a capacitor through a fixed scan waveform switch TFT, and controls the display unit by a magnitude of the voltage, thereby adjusting light-emitting brightness of the display unit.
Process stability of the TFT has always been an important subject of a display screen and a major factor affecting a display image. Threshold voltages (Vth) and mobility of driving TFTs between a plurality of pixels are different in characteristics, the brightness deviates, brightness uniformity of the display screen decreases, and even spots or patterns of regions occur. On another hand, organic materials will age gradually with use time, and cannot be recovered, and will age faster in an area where it is lit for a long time, resulting in a residual image of an image screen. Current external compensation techniques can compensate for instability of TFTs, including cut-off voltages, mobility, etc., which are often applied to medium- and large-scale displays. In general, electrical compensation can determine data to be compensated through voltage or current acquired through a sensing signal line, thereby realizing characteristics of a compensation TFT. Uniformity of a panel can be compensated by optical compensation, and since the compensation and correction are performed by an optical method, problems caused by various reasons, such as mura generated by a process equipment, can be effectively compensated.
Although initial compensation optimization can be performed for external compensation, as the use time increases, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) also begins to deteriorate. Therefore, according to a current compensation method, the OLED cannot be effectively compensated. Therefore, a common image residual problem occurs, and use feeling is severely affected.
The present disclosure provides a pixel compensation method and system that can effectively improve panel uniformity, avoid image abnormalities caused by device aging, and reduce display unevenness and afterimage problems.
In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides a pixel compensation method, wherein the pixel compensation method is applied to a display device, the display device includes a plurality of pixel units, the pixel units are provided with a sensing unit for sensing brightness of the pixel units, and the method comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, before the determining the sensing error data of the pixel unit according to the actual sensing data and the theoretical sensing data corresponding to the target grayscale data, the method comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the method further comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the constructing the sensing parameter model based on the initial grayscale data, the initial sensing data, and the initial state parameter comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the constructing the sensing parameter model based on the initial grayscale data, the initial sensing data, and the initial sensing parameter comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the constructing the sensing parameter model based on the initial grayscale data, the initial sensing data, and the initial sensing parameter comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the adjusting the initial state parameter to acquire the target state parameter comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, after adjusting the initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance in the initial state parameter to acquire the target initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance, the method comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the target grayscale data comprises first target grayscale data, the display device comprises N rows of pixel unit rows, N is a natural number, and the acquiring target grayscale data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the actual sensing data comprises first actual sensing data, and the sensing the brightness of pixel unit when emitting light with the target grayscale data, comprising:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the sensing error data comprises first sensing error data, and the determining the sensing error data of the pixel unit according to the actual sensing data and the theoretical sensing data corresponding to the target grayscale data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the compensating target grayscale data of the pixel unit according to the sensing error data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the target grayscale data comprises second target grayscale data, and the acquiring target grayscale data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the actual sensing data comprises second actual sensed data, and the sensing the brightness of the pixel unit when emitting light with the target grayscale data to acquire the actual sensing data, comprising:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the sensing error data comprises second sensing error data, and the determining sensing error data of the pixel unit according to the actual sensing data and the theoretical sensing data corresponding to the target grayscale data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the compensating target grayscale data of the pixel unit according to the sensing error data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the compensating target grayscale data of the pixel unit according to the sensing error data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the determining the sensing error data of the pixel unit based on the actual sensing data and the theoretical sensing data corresponding to the target grayscale data comprises:
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, the compensating target grayscale data of the pixel unit according to the sensing error data comprises:
Wherein GL′ is the target grayscale data of the pixel unit before compensation, GL″ is the target grayscale data of the pixel unit after compensation, and Step is the pixel compensation value for compensating the target grayscale data.
In another aspect, the present disclosure provides a pixel compensation system, wherein the pixel compensation system comprises:
The pixel compensation system further includes a model invocation module. The model invocation module is specifically for:
The pixel compensation system further includes a model building module, specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for;
The target grayscale data includes first target grayscale data, the display device includes N rows of pixel unit rows, N is a natural number, and the acquiring module 501 is specifically for:
The target grayscale data includes second target grayscale data, and the acquiring module is specifically for:
In the present disclosure, the theoretical sensing data theoretically possessed by the target grayscale data is determined according to the target grayscale data during the process that the pixel unit emits light with the target grayscale data, and the brightness of the pixel unit is sensed in real time by the sensing unit, the actual sensing data is acquired, the actual sensing data is compared with the theoretical sensing data, and the pixel unit is compensated according to the sensing error data acquired by comparison, and thus rapid real-time compensation for the pixel unit is achieved and display unevenness and afterimage problems are reduced.
In order to more clearly illustrate technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the accompanying drawings required for use in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. It will be apparent that the accompanying drawings in the following description are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, and other drawings may be acquired from these drawings without creative effort by those skilled in the art.
Technical solutions in embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of embodiments of the present disclosure, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present disclosure, all other embodiments acquired by those skilled in the art without creative work fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
In the description of the invention, it is to be understood that he term “first”, “second” are for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or imposing a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature that limited by “first”, “second” may expressly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In the description of the present disclosure, the meaning of “plural” is two or more, unless otherwise specifically defined.
In the present disclosure, the word “exemplary” is used to mean “serving as an example, illustration, or explanation”. Any embodiment described as “exemplary” in the present disclosure is not necessarily construed as being more preferable or advantageous than other embodiments. In order to enable any person skilled in the art to implement and use the present disclosure, the following description is given. In the following description, the details are listed for the purpose of explanation. It should be understood that those of ordinary skill in the art can realize that the present disclosure can also be implemented without using these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and processes will not be elaborated to avoid unnecessary details to obscure the description of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the illustrated embodiments, but is consistent with the widest scope that conforms to the principles and features disclosed in the present disclosure.
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A large-size OLED is used as an example. As shown in
A pixel unit structure acquired by combining the above-described photosensitive sensing circuit with the four-color pixel unit may be a structure as shown in
Although the external compensation described above can perform initial compensation optimization of the pixel unit, an OLED device also starts to age as the use time increases, and the OLED cannot be effectively compensated according to the external compensation method described above. Therefore, a common image residual problem occurs, and the use feeling is severely affected.
In order to solve the above problems, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel compensation method and system, which are applied to a display device, the display device comprises a plurality of pixel units, the pixel units are provided with a sensing unit for sensing brightness of the pixel units. The display device may be a liquid crystal display (LCD) or an organic light emitting diode display (OLED). An arrangement mode of the pixel unit and the sensing unit may be as shown in
As shown in
The display device comprises a display driving module, a display panel, and an external memory. In an application process, target grayscale data of an image to be displayed in a next frame to be displayed is inputted to the display driving module through the external memory, the display driving module detects and analyzes the target grayscale data, generates a display driving voltage corresponding to the target grayscale data based on a reference voltage, and inputs the display driving voltage to the pixel unit of the display device for driving and displaying.
When a display driving voltage corresponding to the target grayscale data is applied to the pixel unit, the pixel unit emits light with the target grayscale data, and senses actual emission brightness when the pixel unit emits light by the sensing unit to acquire the actual sensing data.
Before the sensing unit senses the actual emission brightness when the pixel unit emits light and acquires the actual sensing data, analyzing the target grayscale data by a pre-constructed sensing parameter model to determine the theoretical sensing data that the pixel unit should theoretically have when emitting light with the target grayscale data. After the actual sensing data is sensed, the actual sensing data is compared with the theoretical sensing data and analyzed, and the sensing error data is analyzed, so that it is convenient to subsequently determine whether the pixel unit needs to be compensated according to the sensing error data.
Specifically, the step of compensating the target grayscale data of the pixel unit according to the sensing error data includes:
According to the sensing error data, the error value between actually displayed brightness of the pixel unit and theoretically displayed brightness is determined, that is, it is determined whether the error value exceeds the preset error threshold range: if the error value is too great and exceeds the error threshold range, the display abnormality is caused, the pixel unit is compensated for grayscale in real-time until the brightness to be theoretically displayed is acquired.
In the present disclosure, in a process in which the pixel unit emits light with the target grayscale data, the theoretical sensing data of the target grayscale data is determined according to the target grayscale data, the brightness of the pixel unit is sensed by the sensing unit in real-time to acquire the actual sensing data, the actual sensing data is compared with the theoretical sensing data, and the pixel unit is compensated according to the sensing error data acquired by the comparison, so that a fast real-time compensation of the pixel unit is realized, and the problems of uneven display and after image are reduced.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, before the target grayscale data is analyzed by the pre-constructed sensing parameter model, the sensing parameter model needs to be pre-constructed, as shown in
In constructing the sensing parameter model, the grayscale data of the image to be displayed inputted to a display driving module from the external memory is used as the initial grayscale data, and the initial grayscale data of different grayscale values is inputted in advance to the display device for display, so as to acquire theoretical brightness displayed at full grayscale for each pixel unit of the display device.
When the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data, the brightness when the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data is sensed by the sensing member in the display device to acquire the initial sensing data. The brightness of the pixel unit is adjusted by adjusting illumination display time of the display device, so that different light-emitting brightness is realized to acquire a plurality of brightness stages when the pixel unit emits light with initial grayscale data, and to acquire initial sensing data corresponding to the plurality of stages of brightness.
The initial state parameter includes an initial light emission duration of the pixel unit and an initial specification parameter of an integral capacitance in the sensing unit when the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data, when the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data, the emission duration when the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data and the initial specification parameter of the integration capacitance when the sensing unit senses the light-emitting brightness of the pixel unit are saved.
After acquiring the initial sensing data when the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data, the initial sensing data and the initial state parameter corresponding to the initial grayscale data are stored, and the sensing parameter model is constructed based on the initial grayscale data and corresponding initial sensing data and the initial state parameter. In a practical application process, in order to save time of brightness sensing of the pixel unit, initial grayscale data of a part of grayscale values is selected as a representative, and other grayscales of the full grayscale may be constructed by linear fitting or image fitting.
Specifically, in this embodiment, constructing of the sensing parameter model based on the initial grayscale data, the initial sensing data, and the initial state parameter specifically includes:
When the sensing data determination result is that the initial sensing data is within the sensing threshold range, the initial grayscale data, the initial sensed data, and the initial state parameter are used as the first model parameter of the sensing parameter model;
That is, in this embodiment, as shown in
In this embodiment, the adjusting the initial state parameter to acquire the target state parameter includes:
Generally, the reason why the initial sensing data is abnormal data includes that a current light emission duration of the pixel unit is abnormal, or the initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance in the sensing unit does not meet the requirement. Therefore, by adjusting the light emission duration when the pixel unit emits light with the initial grayscale data, or adjusting the initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance in the sensing unit, the initial sensing data can be adjusted to be sensing data meeting the requirement. In an actual application, the initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance in the sensing unit is adjusted only when the light emission duration of the pixel unit emitting light with the initial grayscale data is adjusted first, and if the initial sensing data is still not within the threshold range after the light emission duration is adjusted.
After the initial sensing data is adjusted to be within the sensing threshold range, a last adjusted initial state parameter is used as the target state parameter, last acquired initial sensing data is used as the target sensing data, and the target sensing data meeting the normal standard and the corresponding initial grayscale data and the target state parameter are used as the second model parameter of the sensing parameter model.
The sensing parameter model is then constructed based on the first model parameter and/or the second model parameter. In this embodiment, the sensing parameter model is actually a multi-dimensional model table or algorithm. Exemplarily, the multi-dimensional model table may be shown in Table 1. Elements in the multi-dimensional model table include three parameters of the first model parameter, initial sensing data, and initial grayscale data and initial state parameter corresponding thereto. Each initial sensing data corresponds to an initial grayscale data and an initial state data. Subsequently, after the initial grayscale data is inputted to the pixel unit, initial sensing data and initial state data corresponding to the initial grayscale data may be acquired by means of a sensing parameter model index.
When there is data adjustment in the sensing parameter model, elements in the sensing parameter model may include three parameters of the first model parameter and three parameters of the second model parameter at a same time. In fact, the target sensing data in the second model parameter acquired after adjustment and the initial grayscale data and the target state parameter corresponding to the target sensed data are slightly different from the initial sensing data in the first model parameter and the initial grayscale data and the initial state parameter corresponding to the target sensed data. Therefore, in the application process, data having a smaller difference between the second model parameter and the first model parameter may be fused. Therefore, the cases including the first model parameter and the second model parameter are not additionally listed here. Subsequently, after the initial grayscale data is inputted to the pixel unit, the initial sensing data and the initial state data corresponding to the initial grayscale data may be acquired by the sensing parameter model index, or the target sensing data and the target initial state data corresponding to the initial grayscale data may be acquired after the initial grayscale data is inputted to the pixel unit, thereby realizing the application of the sensing parameter model.
Since the TFT component, the sensing, the current integrator, and the like in the display panel may cause brightness sensing errors, the brightness sensing errors may be corrected by sensing a black screen, that is, when the display device does not display an image, reference sensing data of the sensing unit that does not perform brightness sensing on the display device is acquired in advance, and the actual sensing data acquired by subsequent sensing is calibrated by the reference sensing data, and the actual sensing data may include the initial sensing data and the adjusted target sensing data.
Therefore, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
When the display device is in a light emitting state, after the current initial sensing data of the display device is acquired, the initial sensing data is corrected by the reference sensing data, and the initial sensing data is subtracted from the reference sensing data to acquire the initial sensing difference, the initial sensing difference is the sensing data actually corresponding to the initial grayscale data. In this embodiment, the acquired initial sensing difference is used as the initial sensing data in the first model parameter to achieve the purpose of optimizing the initial sensing data in the sensing parameter model, so that the initial sensing data in the sensing parameter model is more accurate. At a same time, after each initial sensing data is subtracted from the reference sensing data, overall data of the first model parameter is compressed, so that a data amount of the first model parameter is reduced, and a operation load of the display drive module in the display device is reduced.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
After the target sensing data is adjusted to be within the sensing threshold range, the target sensing data is corrected by the reference sensing data to achieve a purpose of optimizing the target sensing data in the sensing parameter model and to make the target sensing data in the sensing parameter model more accurate.
In this embodiment, after the initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance in the sensing unit is adjusted, a specification of the sensing unit changes at this time, and the brightness sensing using the updated sensing unit causes a deviation between the brightness data sensed by the updated sensing unit and that sensed by the sensing unit that has not been updated previously. Therefore, the reference sensing data of the sensing unit needs to be updated again.
That is, in another embodiment of the present disclosure, after adjusting the initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance in the initial state parameter to acquire the target initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance, the method includes:
After integrating the initial specification parameter of the capacitance in the sensing unit, the data of the display device in the undisplayed state is sensed again, and the reference sensing data corresponding to the updated initial specification parameter of the integral capacitance is updated. Subsequently, by subtracting the initial sensing data sensed from the updated reference sensing data, the error in the subsequently sensed initial sensing data caused by adjusting the initial specification parameter of the integrated capacitance in the sensing unit can be reduced.
In the present disclosure, the pixel compensation method of the display device includes a timing compensation method and a real-time compensation method. Specifically, the timing compensation method refers to sequentially compensating the pixel units of the display device when the display device is in a non-real-time display state, and the real-time compensation method refers to dynamically compensating the pixel units of the display device when the display device is in a real-time display state. The foregoing two compensation modes are described in detail below.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, when pixel compensation is performed on a pixel unit of a display device using the timing compensation method, target grayscale data includes a first target grayscale data, the display device includes N rows of pixel unit rows, N is a natural number, and the acquiring target grayscale data includes:
In this embodiment, when the display device is in an initial state of the power-on/off stage, that is, when the display device is not illuminated, the display device is in a black screen state, and the sensing unit is in an initial state in which no light is sensed, as shown in
Therefore, in this embodiment, the acquiring the actual sensing data by sensing the brightness when the pixel unit emits light with the target grayscale data includes:
Determining the sensing error data of the pixel unit based on the actual sensing data and the theoretical sensing data corresponding to the target grayscale data includes: determining the first sensing error data of the pixel unit based on the first actual sensing data and the first theoretical sensing data corresponding to the first target grayscale data.
Compensating the target grayscale data of the pixel unit based on the sensing error data includes: compensating the first target grayscale data of the pixel unit based on the first sensing error data.
Specifically, it is determined whether the first sensing error data exceeds the preset first error threshold range, a first determination result is acquired, and the first target grayscale data of the pixel unit is compensated according to the first determination result.
Exemplarily, if the first actual sensing data of all the pixel units in the first row of the display device is set to be RealSense1, the first actual sensing data is set to be TargetSense1, and the first sensing error data is set to be ΔSense1, the operation mode may be set to be ΔSense1=RealSense1×Gain−TargetSense1, where Gain refers to a gain value of the screen display. In actual application, the gain value of the screen display may be set according to the actual situation, and the first sensing error data may be set to be the ΔSense1 operation mode or other modes, which is not specifically limited in this example.
If the first sensing error data ΔSense1 is within the set first error threshold range, it represents that the picture currently displayed by the pixel unit of the display device is uniform, and the current first target grayscale data and the corresponding first actual sensing data RealSense1 may be stored for subsequent display;
When the first target grayscale data of all the pixel units in the first row of the display device is compensated, all the pixel units in the second row of the display device are illuminated, and the above steps are repeated to compensate all the pixel units in the second row until all the pixel units of the display device are compensated.
In a possible implementation of the present disclosure, when the display device is in a real-time display state and pixel compensation is performed on the pixel unit of the display device using the real-time compensation method, the target grayscale data includes second target grayscale data, and the acquiring target grayscale data includes:
In this embodiment, since the display device is in the real-time display state and the display screen changes all the time, the grayscale compensation for the pixel unit can be performed only at a non-driving time of the display device, that is, at a blanking time of the display device.
When the display device is in the blanking time, the display device is in a black screen state, and the sensing unit is in an initial state in which no light is sensed. At this time, the sensing unit is reset so that the sensing unit is in an initial state, and at a same time, the display device acquires last grayscale data stored in the display driving module, that is, the second target grayscale data, as shown in
Therefore, in this embodiment, acquiring the actual sensing data by sensing the brightness when the pixel unit emits light with the target grayscale data includes:
Determining the sensing error data of the pixel unit based on the actual sensing data and the theoretical sensing data corresponding to the target grayscale data includes: determining the second sensing error data of the pixel unit based on the second actual sensing data and the second theoretical sensing data corresponding to the second target grayscale data.
Compensating the target grayscale data of the pixel unit based on the sensing error data includes: compensating the second target grayscale data of the pixel unit based on the second sensing error data.
Specifically, it is determined whether the second sensing error data exceeds the preset second error threshold range, a second determination result is acquired, and the second target grayscale data of the pixel unit is compensated according to the second determination result.
Exemplarily, if the second actual sensing data of all the pixel units of the display device is set to be RealSense2, the second actual sensing data is set to be TargetSense2, and the second sensing error data is set to be ΔSense2, the operation mode may be set to be ΔSense2=RealSense2×Gain−TargetSense2, where Gain refers to the screen display gain value. In the actual application, the screen display gain value may be set according to the actual situation, and the second sensing error data may be set to be ΔSense2 operation mode or other modes, which is not specifically limited in this example.
If the second sensing error data ΔSense2 is within the set second error threshold range, it represents that the picture currently displayed by the display device pixel unit is uniform, and the current second target grayscale data and the corresponding second actual sensing data RealSense2 may be stored for subsequent display;
The above steps are repeated until the second target grayscale data of all pixel units of the display device are compensated. The real-time pixel compensation of the display device in the above-described manner facilitates fast pixel compensation in the display process of the display device and enhances the uniformity of the display screen of the display device.
In order to better implement the pixel compensation method in the embodiment of the present disclosure, on a basis of the pixel compensation method, a pixel compensation system is further provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in
The pixel compensation system further includes a model invocation module. The model invocation module is specifically for:
The pixel compensation system further includes a model building module, specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
Subtracting the initial sensing data from the reference sensing data to acquire an initial sensing difference when the sensing data judgment result is that the initial sensing data is within the sensing threshold range;
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The model building module is specifically for:
The target grayscale data includes first target grayscale data, the display device includes N rows of the pixel unit, N is a natural number, and the acquiring module 501 is specifically for:
Acquiring first target grayscale data for each pixel unit in an nth row of the pixel unit of display device, n being a natural number less than or equal to N.
The target grayscale data includes second target grayscale data, and the acquiring module is specifically for:
Determining whether the sensing error data exceeds a preset error threshold range, and acquiring a determination result;
Compensating the target grayscale data of the pixel unit according to the determination result.
The pixel compensation method and system provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present disclosure are described by using specific examples. The description of the embodiments is merely intended to help understand the method and core ideas of the present disclosure. At the same time, for those skilled in the art, there may be changes in the specific embodiments and application scope according to the idea of the present disclosure. In conclusion, the content of this specification should not be construed as a limitation on the present disclosure.
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202210170651.X | Feb 2022 | CN | national |
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